Biography & Autobiography - Historical

Solider, politician, miner, pioneer, scion of a Founding Father, William Stephen Hamilton led a prolific life. Rough Diamond: The Life of Colonel William Stephen Hamilton examines the tumultuous early Republic period of American history through the life of Alexander Hamilton's son.Born in New York...

"In a very real sense, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh can . . . be said to be the last, or one of the last Irish Republicans. Studies of the Provisional movement to date have invariably focused more on the Northerners and the role of people...

Lew Wallace (1827-1905) is one of the most significant Hoosiers in Indiana history. Wallace accomplished many remarkable things in his life, yet today, when people are asked "Who was Lew Wallace?" many respond "Lew Who?"Wallace played a leading role in America's military, political, diplomatic,...

In 1921, Converse hired 20-year-old Chuck Taylor as a salesman, sparking a nearly 50-year career that defined the Converse All Star basketball shoe. Although his name is on the label of the legendary All Stars, which have been worn by hundreds of millions, little...

In 1939, the 65-year old French political economist Charles Rist was serving as advisor to the French government and consultant to the international banking and business world. As France anxiously awaited a German invasion, Rist traveled to America to negotiate embargo policy. Days after...

In a compelling approach to storytelling, When Europe Was a Prison Camp weaves together two accounts of a family's eventual escape from Occupied Europe. One, a memoir written by the father in 1941; the other, begun by the son in the 1980s, fills in...

During the 1940s and 1950s, one name, John Bartlow Martin, dominated the pages of the "big slicks," the Saturday Evening Post, LIFE, Harper's, Look, and Collier's. A former reporter for the Indianapolis Times, Martin was one of a handful of freelance writers able to...

My grandfather grew up in Arizona in the 1920s and 1930s. One weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor he joined the Navy. During the summer of 2012, my mother visited him and recorded his stories about growing up, World War II, and his...

The first biography of Sam Houston, written and published during his lifetime. Some say he commissioned the writing of the book in preparation for a presidential run, but new research indicates a far more interesting motive for its publication.Author: Charles Edwards LesterISBN-10: 1941324363ISBN-13: 9781941324363Publisher:...

Robert Scot was without doubt the most prolific of colonial American engravers. His patriotic symbols inspired sentiments of rebellion, unity and liberty throughout the Revolutionary period, and on into the early nineteenth century. His highly-skilled engravings depicted important historical events, such as a detailed...

So many memories I would like to forget. But they are vividly etched in my mind, and impossible to erase. During World War II, a young Polish American girl named Cecylia was imprisoned in a Nazi labor camp. After more than sixty years, with...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of...

On August 1, 1966, Charles Whitman climbed to the top of the University of Texas at Austin's clock tower and performed the first televised and (at the time) deadliest mass shooting in American history. Two weeks after the murders, FBI agents interviewed a Catholic...

Levinia Perry arrived in Mountain City, Colorado Territory, from Cornwall, England, on September 21, 1863. The day she stepped off the stagecoach, she married her sweetheart Hugh Champion, who had waited two long years for that day. This book, authored by her granddaughter Amy...

It rarely happens, but occasionally a manuscript appears that literally changes our view of history, adds insights into important events, or perhaps even changes "history." Such a book is Joy of the Frontier and the history it affects includes early Christian bible camps, the...

Leadership Under Fire: Advancing, Communicating, Teaching and Setting Communities at Liberty is our story of personal transformation. It also is a call to reignite our dreams, reexamine our journey to freedom, rebuild our communities and reclaim our backyards. Leadership Under Fire pushes us to...

From 1887 until 1970, African American (Black) Students in Lee County were educated separately. Lee County Florida during this era was typical of the public school systems throughout the South. Black students attended school in a variety of facilities that included but were not...

In January 1929, in a grimy, working-class neighborhood on the south bank of the Thames, Eileen Gwynneth Yvonne Redfern was born. From her inauspicious beginning as the unwelcome third occupant of Old Ma Tanner's one-room apartment on Coin Street to an eighteen-year-old on the...

Based on memories of Vera Kara, daughter of the Austrian brew master to Czar Nicholas, the Kara family story is at times a fairy tale and a nightmare. In three generations, they lose four fortunes and must repeatedly surrender their way of life. Although...

Born in Flanders, Marthe Cnockaert McKenna (1892-1986) was recruited in 1915, during World War I, to an Anglo-Belgian espionage ring. Her cover was as a nurse, and the Germans awarded her the Iron Cross for her hospital work. After a period as a double...

Ben Franklin's life, in his own words. Journalist, statesman, scientist, inventor, rabble-rouser, ambassador, carouser. The remarkable life of a remarkable man.Author: Benjamin FranklinISBN-10: 1934941433ISBN-13: 9781934941430Publisher: Red and Black PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/02/2009Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 9.09h x 6.02w x 0.44dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 11.8Point Value: 15Interest...

Surely pirates, taking them in their broadest sense, are as much entitled to a biographical dictionary of their own as are politicians, clergymen, race-horses, or artists in ferro-concrete, who all have their own "Who's Who"? This volume does not pretend to be a history...

"Read how one man with vision and courage profoundly changed America's landscape during the Civil War. We are indebted to Heller for uncovering this unheralded heroic figure. A great American story." General Richard B. Myers Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and...

Knowledge about the American social environment in the transitional period following the Civil War is still incomplete in certain respects. Robert Moton, a respected black educator and a tireless promoter of racial harmony, has left us a memoir that provides a unique and valuable...

A well-researched, comprehensive and delightfully written early work of the celebrated author of the Hornblower series and other great novels.Author: C. S. ForesterISBN-10: 1931541965ISBN-13: 9781931541961Publisher: Simon PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/27/2003Pages: 284Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 9.02h x 6.12w x 0.76d

Author: Benjamin FranklinISBN-10: 1931541884ISBN-13: 9781931541886Publisher: Simon PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2002Pages: 416Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.51lbsSize: 9.10h x 5.64w x 1.06d

This is a biography of the leader of the Chinese revolution that overturned the corrupt and autocratic Manchu Empire. Dr Sun Yat-Sen was the first democratically elected president of the Chinese Republic.Author: Stephen ChenISBN-10: 1931541175ISBN-13: 9781931541176Publisher: Simon PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2001Pages: 242Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 9.04h...

Gandhi's long-time friend and collaborator presents Gandhi's autobiography and many of his writings, and relates his experiences in India and South Africa.Author: C. F. AndrewsISBN-10: 1931541167ISBN-13: 9781931541169Publisher: Simon PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1931Pages: 416Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.46lbsSize: 10.80h x 5.78w x 1.06d

Author: Helen Hill MillerISBN-10: 1931313458ISBN-13: 9781931313452Publisher: Simon PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/19/1938Pages: 344Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.18w x 0.83d

Political leaders in the South before and after the Civil War relied upon a coummunication network of personal visits and letter writing to overcome the hardships of the tariffs, the war and reconstruction. Most readers recognize the names of Cahoun, Clemson, and Hampton.The author...

As Nazi Swastikas blight the landscape of most of Europe during World War II, Simone de Cruzel, a defiant 19-year-old socialite living on the French Riviera and daughter of a Provincial Court Judge, is a spy for the British with the code name of...

In this true-life non-fiction adventure, Dr. Wayne Frye explores famed knife aficionado Jim Bowie's romance with Judalon de Bornay and how it may have inadvertently led to his near death in the famous Visalia Sand Bar Brawl. Called the Rembrandt of words by one...

In the 1870s in Ontario's Muskoka, teenager Thomas Osborne endured starvation, freezing, accidents with axes and boats, and narrow escapes from wolves and bears. Decades later, after moving to the United States, Osborne wrote down all his adventures in a graphic memoir four years...

WINSTON CHURCHILLWinston Churchill was a incredible man with an extremely full life. He had a varied career in which he spent much time being quite unpopular in the public eye. Despite the great challenges Churchill faced during his life, and at times his incredible...

WINSTON CHURCHILLAt the turn of the new millennium, the BBC held a survey which sought to decide the country's greatest ever person, from any era. There was, really, only ever one serious contender. Of the more than a million votes cast, almost half were...

There is a risk in telling another's story especially when passed down through the family and there are many layers to a life that each person may only glimpse part of. It was with trepidation that Judith took on the task of peeling back...

In 1943 Felice Benuzzi broke out of a POW camp to scale the second highest mountain in Africa, with no maps and only hand-made gear, passing through a jungle up to the ice-capped top. Seventeen days later he broke back into the camp and...

Archbishop Mannix was Australia's most famous churchman, its most famous Irishman, one of its great troublemakers. As Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne from the First World War to the Nineteen-Sixties, he was a tribal leader and political figure as much as a spiritual leader. A...

Nemarluk, one of the most feared Aboriginal renegades in the north of Australia, had vowed to rid his land of all intruders. This is the story of the last few years of his life and his extraordinary battle with the tracker, Bul-Bul, brought in...

The story of a young convict, Solomon Blay, who became Her Majesty's hangman in Van Diemen's Land; the man who personally had to deliver an Empire's judgement on 200 men and women, and endured his own noose of personal demons and demonisation in order...

'Portrait of a Leader' is a unique biography of Sir Oswald Mosley: the Leader of the British Union of Fascists. Unlike subsequent biographies published years after the events, this book was written in 1937 at the height of Mosley's struggle to redistribute the wealth...

Where, or what, is home? What has it meant, historically and personally, to be 'Italian' or 'English', or both in a culture that prefers us to choose? What does it mean to have roots? Or to have left a piece of oneself somewhere long...

The author traces the Queen Mother's formative years, her family life in the palace environment, her growing adoration and ascension to the British throne, how she arranged aid to Stalingrad and was ultimately named an honorary citizen of that city, and other little-known details...

Kefallinia, Greece History for tourism. Kefalonia Greece is the largest island of the Ionian Islands cluster and considered an ideal resort where you will have the chance to get acquainted with nature. Enigmatic caves, imposing sinkholes, sculptured rocks, verdant forests, and golden beaches, composing...

Crete. Early History and Culture of Crete people. The island of Crete has been inhabited since prehistoric times. There is evidence of organized habitation which dates back to 8000 BCE, and the excavations of the 20th century have revealed a splendid civilization which ruled...

Andros Island Travel and Tourism. Travel Guide and Locations information. A vacation in Andros is a wonderful, unforgettable experience The Greek Island of Andros has something for everyone, from ancient sites and historical monuments to lush nature paths and golden sandy beaches. Its excellent...

Scotland History Early History, The People, Culture and Tradition. Scotland is one of four countries that make up the United Kingdom. (The other three are England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.) Scotland covers the northern part of the island of Great Britain, which it shares...

"A senile clown", "Bloodthirsty Guttersnipe", "Undisciplined Swine", "Gangster", "Drunkard"...Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill clashed for years in public as their opinions of each other and feuding helped determine the course of the Second World War. As diplomatic and military episodes unfolded - both men...

"The perfect companion to Hilary Mantel's trilogy of Wolf Hall, Bring up the Bodies and The Mirror and the Light, and the biographies of Thomas Cromwell by Diarmaid MacCulloch and Tracy Borman." - Discover Your Ancestors magazineInterest in the 16th century British statesman Thomas...

The crucial first years of Henry IV's reign examined, to discover how he met and overcame the challenges created by his usurpation of the throne. Having seized the throne from his cousin Richard II in 1399, Henry Bolingbroke, the first nobleman to be made...